All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series. This show was recorded in front of a live audience in New York City! This week's episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series, and a special guest host, Aaron Zollman, CISO & vp, platform engineering, Cedar. Our guest is Colin Ahern, chief cyber officer for the State of New York. Thanks to our podcast sponsor, OpenVPN, SlashNext & Votiro Take the cost and complexity out of secure networking with OpenVPN. Whether you choose our cloud-delivered or self-hosted solution, subscriptions are based on concurrent connections, so you pay for what you actually use. Start today with free connections, no credit card required, and scale to paid when you're ready. SlashNext, a leader in SaaS-based Integrated Cloud Messaging Security across email, web, and mobile has the industry's first artificial intelligence solution, HumanAI, that uses generative AI to defend against advanced business email compromise (BEC), supply chain attacks, executive impersonation, and financial fraud. Request a demo today. No matter what technology or training you provide, humans are still the greatest risk to your security. Votiro's API-centric product sanitizes every file before it hits the endpoint, so the files that your employees open are safe. This happens in milliseconds, so the business stays safe and never slows down. In this episode: If you hired someone today, how would you know in 3 months time that they were the right fit? Do you have any other questions you've heard from candidates that you think are better? What doesn't the government currently know about cloud providers that they should know?

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